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Muqaddimah of ibn al-Salah

Kitab Ma’rifat anwa’ Ilm al-Hadith, better known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn al-Salah, is a well-known intermediate level text on the science of Usul al-hadith. For students familiar with the Arabic language and have covered beginners texts in hadith methodology, this...

Modern science seeks power, not wisdom

Modern science is dedicated to explaining events and processes in the natural world, most of the time by means of some degree of mastery of the chain of the causes and effects that lead to specific events and processes. The problem with this approach is two-fold....

Over-definition of legal concepts

Many scholars infer from instances of Qur’anic or Prophetic ruling, what they think is the common or universal principle which governs these rulings. For example, the notion that ‘the state of woman is covering’ is derived from specific rulings about how Muslim women...

Reflections on how Muslims disagree, dispute and divide,why they should stop doing so, and some simple ways to live with and benefit from those disagreements

Having a debate with someone you disagree with and having a conversation with them are not the same thing. People perhaps think that a debate is just the same as a conversation with the addition of a few rules and procedures. For example, whereas

Questions about the Dictionary of women scholars

The two questions put to me since the publication of the full Dictionary are:1- Among the entries in the book, how many women are narrators of hadith and how many are scholars of hadith, muhaddithat? Why are they not distinguished?2- What is the total number of women narrators and scholars of hadith?

Three questions related to the on-going pandemic

Being vaccinated while fasting. Women attending funeral prayers. Women visiting graves. The three questions I have just responded to do have something in common. Behind each of them is a worry that, because someone somewhere at some time may abuse a permission…

Al-Muhaddithat has been published!

Breaking News! Shaykh Akram’s magnum opus, Al-Muhaddithat, has been published! Over a decade has passed since the initial publication of Shaykh Akram Nadwi’s ‘Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam’ (2007). Today, we are honoured and excited to announce that the...

Why are the writings of the scholars unread? Address to the students of Madrasas (Islamic institutions)

Translated by Syed Huzaifah Ali Nadwi, Cambridge There was a long period in human history when the writings of scholars were popular in every class because they were the best examples of knowledge and research and the highest example of eloquence. If we look at these...

السلام انسٹيٹيوٹ لندن كى سالانه تقريب

السلام انسٹيٹيوٹ لندن كى سالانه تقريب از: ڈاكٹر محمد اكرم ندوى صاحب ساز كو لازم ہے كه غافل نه رہے گاہے گاہے غلط آہنگ بهى ہوتا ہے سروش آج (شام ساڑهے چه سے ساڑهے نو بجے تك، 18 دسمبر 2020) السلام انسٹيٹيوٹ لندن/آكسفورڈ كے جلسۂ تقسيم اسناد كى سالانه تقريب راقم السطور كى...

ما سنن الدارقطني؟

ما سنن الدارقطني؟ بقلم: د. محمد أكرم الندوي سألني بعض المهتمين بالحديث النبوي الشريف ومصادره عن كتاب السنن للدارقطني، ما هو؟ ألفه على غرار كتب السنن أم صاغه صياغة كتب العلل؟ فأجبته بما يلي: اسمه: هو كتاب السنن، تأليف الامام الحافظ أبي الحسن علي بن عمر بن أحمد بن محمد...